评论来自 Yousha

评论来自 wingman

You can buy 4 things so far with spirit shards, all of them are from a vendor in Wintergrasp whilst your faction has control of it.1) Metagems2) Metagem designs3) Shoulder/Head BoP enchants that give AP/resil or SP/resil4) A BoA (Bind on Account) token that grants 1k honor on use and you can send to it an alt.

评论来自 swiftkiller8

The BoA gear imo are not real as if there where u cud send them too a lvl 19 twink or sumin and that will be very stupid or they can help ya lvl much quiker makin the whol point of lvlin mush easier which i hav nothin against except when it comes too PvP

评论来自 Unagieater

The BoA gear scales depending on your level.

For example, Grand Staff of Jordan, may only give one or two stamina to a level 1, but it would give 103 to a level 80.

Each BoA item is supposed to be equal to a good blue of that level.

评论来自 underlie

GRAMMAR!

Yah basically the BoA means they bind to your account I'm not sure if they are interchangeable when used by a character but they do scale with level giving you whats supposed to be equal to a decent blue of that level everylevel....and the shoulders give bonus xp so these will help with leveling

评论来自 Kaelies

How do you get these?

评论来自 ZTTC1337

You can get them by killing Elite mobs and completing Daily PvP Quests as far as I've seen.

评论来自 Scettzvill

i asume that these can only be obtained when your own faction controlls lake wintergrasp?

however i have yet to find one. even when our faction controlls wintergrasp.

评论来自 ZeeRoX101

a gr8 thing to notice about the hairlooms u can buy with these is that the hairlooms scales with lvl, so u should gather a set for lvling more than 80, and the shoulders with 10% more exp will be in the hands of every mob tagging lvler there is. :P

*sorry for posting it here, didnt know were to post it.*

评论来自 Vesena

Game Masters have confirmed there is currently an issue with the Essence of Wintergrasp buff not being correctly applied to zones, therefore making Stone Keeper's Shards unobtainable other than from the Wintergrasp daily quests..

评论来自 Renevant

Just ran Halls of Lightning (normal mode) and 3 Stone Keeper's Shards dropped from each boss.

评论来自 Lomedae

They seemed to have hotfixed it, we cleared the Nexus and a shard dropped. 299 to go for a Mammoth :P

评论来自 Balmore

Yeah confirmed, got 3 shards from Nexus when the Essence was up.

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评论来自 fafna

When I ran Drak'Tharon Keep yesterday you could ONLY loot the Stone shards while the other loot was still beeing rolled for. After missing out on a few shards I simply waited to roll on items until I had looted the Shards.

评论来自 weatherby

Just ran Halls of Lightning, and was not able to loot any Stone Keeper's Shards from any of the bosses. Other people in my party were able to loot them, but it varied. On one boss, only one guy was able to loot the shards. On the last boss, almost everyone except for me could loot them.

At first I wondered if there was some sort of level requirement, since I'm only level 78. But a level 76 member of the party was able to loot the shards. Also, I ran The Culling of Stratholme yesterday and was able to loot the shards, no problem. So I think it's definitely a bug of some kind.

评论来自 Nafe

One thing I notice here is that none of the gems bought with these shards have a BoP attribute to them.Kinda fitting, I guess, considering that many of the items bought here are heirloom items.

评论来自 DRrogue

very easy to farm these, me and four other friends just did azjol'nerub abunch o' times and got 32

评论来自 Raithon

I'm just a little annoyed by the fact that all you can buy with these items are PvP items, item enhancements, and gems. Why would Blizzard make them drop from PvE bosses if you can only obtain PvP items?

Even if you can get jewelcrafting formulas, not everyone is a jewelcrafter.

评论来自 mamav

Still a lot of bugs with those shards. I ran UK with my hunter yesterday, the buff was up the whole time. I checked Wintergrasp via one of my guildies, the battle had ended long before we entered the instance. We were able to loot shards only from the last boss, and only 4 of us.Kinda sad as I would like to see my little dwarf with the cannon...

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评论来自 Dracohouston

they're obviously to help pve focused players get into pvp, much like set tokens for glad gear and badges for non set pvp gear near the end of TBC.

评论来自 Groundlord

These apparently drop off of ANY Boss in the Northrend WotLK Dungeons, as long as your side (Alliance or Horde) has control of Lake Wintergrasp.

评论来自 finchna

perhaps i'm not seeing everything you can redeem these shards for, but basically blizz is offering pvp shoulder/head enchants for doing pve runs. why are they wasting our time with resil instead of crit or agil with the AP? and only jc patterns? how about some other professions? these things aren't particularly useful -- even the meta-gems -- there are so few opportunities to use them. c'mon blizz, give us non-jcs some more things on which to use these shards.

评论来自 Helltempest

perhaps i'm not seeing everything you can redeem these shards for

I believe you'll be able to buy pvp gear when it comes out

blizz is offering pvp shoulder/head enchants for doing pve runs

why are they wasting our time with resil instead of crit or agil

Wait what

and only jc patterns? how about some other professions?

I believe this may have to do with giving people the ability to buy the metagems, instead of just paying stone keeper's shards. If JC's can make them, you have the option.

If that's their goal, other proffs become irrelevant because you can't buy other proffs' wares for stone keeper's shards

评论来自 Kathucka

Note that all of the armor and weapons, shoulder enhancements (inscriptions), and head enhancements (arcanums) purchased with these shards, and all of the gems cut with patterns purchased with these shards, have PvP-oriented stats. Given that these shards are rewarded from PvP activity (even if it isn't yours), that makes sense.

The PvP stats and ratings that appear are:

Resilience: Reduces probability of being hit with a critical strike, damage from when you get hit with a critical strike, and damage from damage-over-time effects. While primarily a PvP stat, this is also moderately useful for tanks that can't get crit immunity via talents or defense rating.

Spell Penetration: Ignores some of the target's resistance to the school of spells you're casting. This reduces the possibility that the spell will be fully or partially resisted. Note that it does not affect the probability that the spell will miss entirely (that's level-based and affected by hit rating). Resistances cannot be lowered past zero, so this is only useful against targets with resistance. Most monsters have little or no spell resistance, so this is a PvP stat.

Fear, Stun, Snare/Root, and Silence Duration Reduction: PvP opponents use these skills constantly to cripple each other, so this is another good PvP stat. Some PvE bosses use these abilities as well, so these are decent PvE skills. In particular, healers will appreciate silence duration reduction.

Minor Run Speed Increase: PvP opponents are constantly trying to outmaneuver each other, so this offers a small advantage in doing that. It's also handy for PvE, especially for melee character in fights where they have to move around a lot between multiple targets.

The shoulder items are particularly intriguing, as they all offer 10% more experience for monsters killed. They are clearly intended to be handed down to low-level alts. Note that, in addition to this clearly PvE stat, they also have resilience. So, they're good for PvE and PvP.

评论来自 cyberdreck

if your dead when its looted by a party member you cant loot it. they have to rez yuo before anyone loots it.

评论来自 y02mustang

So... just to be sure I understand: if I save up my shards and purchase one of these items, it's bound to my account only - I can send it to an alt when I want to level them, and then send it back to my main to wear, too?

That's pretty awesome.

Edited: Okay, I spoke with Game Master Abbix about an unrelated issue, and asked this question at the end. He said that while you can trade the items with your alts and back again, i.e. the shoulder items for the extra exp, "the bind of account items won't take most of the enhancements". That makes sense, if they're scaleable, since the enhancements aren't.

评论来自 Reia

Unfortunately, no druid staff for my alt.

评论来自 kain260

Also enchanting an item makes it soulbound. If the enchantment you want to put on does not have a level requirement you can use it, but you will no longer be able to mail the item to your alt.

评论来自 singmyr

enchanting an item does not make it soulbound, attaching various leg armors and stuff do.you can enchant anything that is mailable and eligible for a certain enchant and mail to god knows who.

评论来自 Daluur

I don't know if I'am the only one with this problem, or I might just be stupid... but yesterday I went hc nexus... we had the wintergrasp buff, all in the party except me could loot the Shards.. then I realized that I had 150, and thought "perhaps you can only have 150 at a time", so I went to wintergrasp after the run, only to realize that some items costs 300 shards...So what I'am asking, how can you get more than 150 shards? or did I maybe just have a problem being unable to loot the shards

评论来自 RamsesJunior

This is not true of druids as of WotLK:

Resilience: Reduces probability of being hit with a critical strike, damage from when you get hit with a critical strike, and damage from damage-over-time effects. While primarily a PvP stat, this is also useful for bear tanks.

评论来自 Hyperspacerebel

Something I've been wondering about for a while, but don't have two high level characters to test it out on.....

Are the Stone Keeper's Shards themselves BoA? (i.e. if one character has 100 and another has 100, could I buy a BoA item that costs 200?)

评论来自 Mikeyy

i looted over 450 shards now... so you can loot many many more

评论来自 Mikeyy

I got over 450 Shards now ...so you can loot many many more..

评论来自 sunfirexl

Actually, If you look at the item for stonekeeper shard.. it says bind on pickup so no, you cannot transfer to your other characters.Also just to test for you i tried to mail from my 79 to my 75 and it said NO :)

评论来自 Wolfmaster5255

These things seem like a complete waste. I'm a prot war and there is pretty much nothing that even semi interests me to purchase. I mean i understand that it's pvp based since it ultimatly revolves around wintergrasp, but would it kill blizz to hook us prot specs up with some def gear or gems? Furthermore, wtf is the deal with all the jewelcrafting recipies? Would it kill blizz to show some love to BS/LW/Tailoring? Seems to me and alot of others that they totally blew this one..guess it shouldn't surprise me though from them

评论来自 LetoAtreides82

You are now restricted to doing one 10-man Archavon and one 25-man Archavon per week.

评论来自 llars

From what I have noticed when doing instances if your faction loses control of Wintergrasp and you die regardless of whether or not you release you will lose the buff. Leaving the instance will also cause you to lose the buff.

So as long as you don't die or run out you will keep the buff (for now).

评论来自 uaedevil

gg

评论来自 Mantalar

At the moment it seems there's a way to gain an infinite number of Stone Keeper's Shards from a single instance, that being Violet Hold in Dalaran.

Once your faction has the Wintergrasp buff active, start a Violet Hold run with a full group. Make it through the first two bosses, then wipe on the mobs afterward. When you release your spirit and re-enter the instance, it'll be completely reset, bosses, trash mobs, loot, everything.

If you don't want to have insane repair bills by the end, make sure you change to your birthday suit after the second boss.

As of this writing I've done Violet Hold twice, wiped three times in the middle of the second run, and came away with around 20 shards total for two runs worth.

评论来自 uberdyownz

Earlier in an Utgarde Keep run we downed the final boss (whos name escapes me) and he dropped the 4 shards but only for one person, the whole group had to roll on the stack. Unpleasant bug.

ill upload a screenshot soon

评论来自 uberdyownz

Earlier in an Utgarde Keep run we downed the final boss, Ingvar, and he dropped the 4 shards but only for one person, the whole group had to roll on the stack. Unpleasant bug.

ill upload a screenshot soon

评论来自 ZeRDuSHT

same happen to us too...

评论来自 Sadres

Happened to us, too.

评论来自 Ltshift

hey does anyone know how some level 19 or 29 or 39 twinks get these?

评论来自 Crossfyre

Unless a level 19,29, or 39 twink can get into a 5-man dungeon in Northrend I have no idea.

评论来自 Ralianos

hey does anyone know how some level 19 or 29 or 39 twinks get these?

They don't; their level 80 main collects the shards and buys the BoA gear with them and then mails said gear to twink alt.

评论来自 Lazorbeam

The first thing that jumped at me was the sub 50% drop rate of the shards on bosses. You'd expect the drop rate to be 50%, or at least very close to it. But nope it isn't.

I'm going to attempt to decipher why the shard drop rate isn't 50%.

1 - First, we know there are more alliance players than there are horde. I think the ratio is somewhere around 1.2:1 Alliance/Horde. Now from personal experience, I find there are way more casual players and younger players on the alliance side. In turn this means the horde outskills the alliance marginally. This could be wrong, as it is only my perspective.

2 - Furthermore, we definitely know that overall, alliance participation in WG is higher than horde. This mean horde usually gets the tenacity buff, which was nerfed by blizzard for being too overpowered.

Combine the above 2 factors and you've got a faction (horde) winning more often than the other (alliance). Since alliance controls WG less often, our high population sees no shards from bosses more often than we do see them.

Make sense?

评论来自 vikey

There are 4 shards to drop on heroic bosses. If you run all heroics and get bosses such as stratholme's mount boss, you can get 212 shards in one day.

评论来自 midget373

Why do people rate down valid questions like this? It's the kind of question that SHOULD be asked.

评论来自 Kathucka

Once a question is answered, there is no need for anyone else to see the question. It's obsolete junk, and in the way of useful posts.

There's nothing wrong with the question. Rating it down is not an insult. It's just been answered already, that's all.

Better yet, if you ask a question, and get it answered, just delete your post with the question. The replies will stay.

评论来自 Ithian

These are now a rolled for item: Meaning that only one person will be able to collect the 4 shards per boss fight, and only when the WG buff is active.

I hope this changes.

评论来自 0Mrk0

This is a rare bug. All the runs I did yesterday on heroic with the buff gave 4x for all 5 players.

评论来自 ShadowM

If you're unlucky (like me) you might have to roll on them...not sure how it happened, all I know is I didn't win ><

评论来自 PSjoe

Anyone know for sure about the BoA? Got over 300 shards and besides the mount nothing on there my toon needs. Would be nice to get the gun and ship to my alt. Still, at 250 hate to try it and fail.

And if you do send to alt it looses enchants? Scales to alt? Kinda not worth it then either if the alt levels fast then gun will be useless soon enough.

ThanksPSjoe

评论来自 RyanLuster88

there is a BoA shoulders bought with these shards that grant +10% exp gained from killing mobs. and cloth, leather, mail and Plate options, there great for alts whom you can get power-level runs, or speed-instances done.

评论来自 danroe

edit again: only reduces the crit chance of melee attacks...

Mobs can't crit with spells.

评论来自 Keniacon

did they chnage these?

why did I just have to roll for them on a heroic azjol nerub run?

评论来自 Smokee10

Could you please give me an advise which of these items is the best for Restoration Druid (Tauren)? Thank you so much.

评论来自 buzzpinguin

I did UK HC today and I had to roll on 4 of these shards ...

Is this new or is it a bug?

评论来自 calvinator1989

Just so anyone is new to WotLK this late (like me), Stone Keeper's Shard are found under your "Currency" tab.

I just did reg UK and realised it after wondering how other party members got it and I didn't (weren't in my bags).

评论来自 the0ther

shame that these are not themselves "bind to account".

i'd really like to send them all to one of my characters so that i can purchase some shoulders for my alt.

评论来自 blazeen

Oo.................thats the whole purpose of the items.....they can be shifted to any (yes ANY) of your characters on your realm that can wear the item. So for cloth wearers you buy one cloth shoulder set, and shunt them to any of your clothie toons. the purpose of sending the shards to any character kind of defeats the object.

评论来自 asupron

Any heroic boss drops them, four of them if you control WG. In regulars, 1 drops per boss. They can be collected for cool stuff, a bit pricy but definately worth it.

评论来自 Souldivider

can you tell what is the number of shards you can posses at a time like 500/1000/5000?

评论来自 ExarVaughn

First ticket I sent in said to delete cache, WTF, and Interface folders, reset everything to defaults, restart computer, etc etc and of course didn't fix it... Second ticket got a reply stating they'll look into it... Just wondering if anyone else had the same issue and found a way to correct it.

评论来自 Garmheim

The shoulder items are particularly intriguing, as they all offer 10% more experience for monsters killed. They are clearly intended to be handed down to low-level alts.

Or, alternatively, they are meant to be used when the next expansion is issued in another 18-24 months.

Could be, right?

评论来自 Ultimatnoob

Anyone know how many of these it is possible to get a week through quests alone, now that they made them weeklies <_<

评论来自 trogli

what lvl i should be to gather 100 of them and how long it will takes it to me?

评论来自 biolan

Q: If my low-lvl char dose a lvl-up the item dose too?

My answer: (i don't have BoA items) I tink yes cuz if not i rly don't see the ideea of these items.

评论来自 MartialArts

can anyone explain me what's going on? I loot this item but after the dunegeon they simply disappear from my backpack? what's wrong?

评论来自 dundermuffin

Has there been any news of whether Blizzard will add new items/recipes/rewards for Stone keeper shards in 3.2 and beyond?

评论来自 kahnei

Ok, I have looked up and down this page for the reason they won't drop for me... I've been in 5-mans with the buff up and have yet to get a shard while everyone else has gotten them...

评论来自 kahnei

IT'S OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAAAAND!

评论来自 OMGITSAWHALE

GET IN YOU'RE CAGE B ITCH

评论来自 barbeque

Currently, the best thing to do with a large stockpile of these, is to purchase Wintergrasp Commendations. 30 shards will essentially gain you 2000 honor. Since 3.2, you can purchase an uncut epic gem for 10,000 honor from Captain O'Neal for Alliance, or Lady Palanseer for Horde. Long story short, 150 shards will buy you an epic gem.

评论来自 Dustman

Can anyone tell me why the weekly quests for Wintergrasp aren't reseting for me? I did all the Wintergrasp quests about 6 months ago and finally decided to come back to do some more pvp stuff but only was able to get 2 quests and now those haven't respawned. It's been 2 weeks.

评论来自 Darthdavo

You will get alot of these if you do Hcs with the buff up.

After a day of dailies, i found my self with 100+ of them.

评论来自 etgothome

... or 2 147 million - depending, where you come from. Those with half a braing will get what I'm saying. ;-)

评论来自 VCast

Is the Champions Seal a Raid drop like the Stone Keepers Shard?

评论来自 TheWoWProduction

I can't see it in my backpack can u tell me why or how i can't see it?

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评论来自 r00flr00fl

When you want to farm these quickly and have done all Wintergrasp quests already I suggest you to do toc nonhc runs when Wintergrasp is in your control, 9 shards per run. :)

评论来自 r00flr00fl

When you want to farm these quickly and have done all Wintergrasp quests already I suggest you to do toc nonhc runs when Wintergrasp is in your control, 9 shards per run. :)

评论来自 TheMercenary

It takes 216 stone keepers shards to buy the 15 Jewelcrafting patterns available from them.

评论来自 casania

guys if my side is controlling wintergrasp do i get {stone keeper shard}?

评论来自 Jigain

Amazingly no one else has said this before, so I'll make a note about it here.

When you're buying heirloom items for your alts to aid in their leveling, make sure you buy the right ones! Not only does the item enhancements scale with your level, but the material does as well.

If you buy a cloth shoulder and send it to a warlock, mage, priest, death knight, paladin, rogue - well, any class - it'll be cloth all the way to 80.If you buy a leather shoulder and send it to any of your characters, it'll still be leather all the way to 80.But here comes the trick!If you buy a mail shoulder and send it to any of your characters save hunters and shamans, it'll be mail from level 1 to level 80. However, if you DO send it to a hunter or shaman, it's leather from level 1 through 40, and mail from level 40 through 80.Likewise, a plate shoulderpiece sent to a paladin or warrior is mail for the first forty levels, then plate as soon as you can wear that. Death knights, since they are never restricted from using plate, always get the plate version, of course.

So remember, if you're shopping shoulders for a hunter, shaman, warrior or paladin, make sure you get MAIL and PLATE shoulders respectively!

评论来自 Gusstavv

You can carry 4000 Shards max

评论来自 redhawk816

What's the max number of stone keeper shards you can have on your toon at one time?

评论来自 Bobblybook

News just in - when your faction has WG, people run VH more. source. Remember that next time you have an impulsive urge to run to VH once you see that WG buff pop up and remember, it's been scientifically proven*.

评论来自 adashiel

With the removal of marks in patch 3.3.3, collectors who don't PvP much or at all can use shards to obtain mounts and tabards previously only available to PvPers. It's not the easiest or best way, but at least it's an option for those don't like PvP. buys you a 冬拥湖奖章, which you can convert into .

Note: When purchasing Honor, make sure you don't go over the cap, which is currently set to .

Mounts

Each PvP mount costs , so you'll need to buy the necessary . To get all six, you'll have to farm up a total of . That's , , or 1125 Heroic boss kills while your faction holds Wintergrasp.

阿拉希盆地 also has tabards (阿拉索战袍 and 污染者战袍), but they are quest rewards, and therefore cannot be obtained except by doing AB. Likewise, 征服之岛 has tabards (征服之岛战袍 and 征服之岛战袍) that you can only get by completing all the IoC achievements. 风暴之眼 and 远古海滩 do not have tabards that players can obtain.

The total cost for all four tabards is , so you'd need , which translates to or 233 Heroic boss kills while your faction holds Wintergrasp.(##RESPBREAK##)2056##DELIM##adashiel##DELIM##

评论来自 Silithid

Only drops with blessing of wintergrasp. If your lucky you'll be in a realm with your faction at a large majority. Thrall and black dragonflight are good for horde, arathor good for Alliance.

评论来自 gaddisken

I haven't read all the questions, so this may have been asked and answered, but can shards be conerted into othe emblems? Such as in the Hall of Legends, where Frost can be converted into Triumph, etc...

评论来自 insaneblade

no they cant gadd but i bet when cata hits theys will prolly get changed

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评论来自 Henderman

Removed from game with patch 4.0.1

评论来自 Chocodave

Thought I'd add this as I came looking here and nobody had mentioned it...Stone Keepers Shards were removed as part of 4.0.1 . There were converted into gold/justice points (I forget which!)Sad times for any of us who were so close to obtaining this achievement

评论来自 Warondar

I was trying to remember what this achievement was when scrolling through my Feats of Strength, and came here to look them up.Don't know about you, but I sure don't remember anyone (especially myself) remotely close to the Max Stack of: 2147483647 as stated here on wowhead. hehe